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    Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
    Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
    Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
    Audiobook18 hours

    Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night

    Written by James Patterson (Editor)

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.

    LOCK THE DOORS,
    DRAW THE SHADES, PULL UP
    THE COVERS AND BE PREPARED
    FOR THRILLER TO KEEP YOU
    UP ALL NIGHT.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 22, 2006
    ISBN9781423321798
    Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night

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    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed the variety of stories and the telling of it was just wonderful kept me on my seated at my pant. Great collection of short stories.

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    • 5/5
      Great to discover other authors and there style of story telling

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    • 3/5
      This was a helpful anthology to keeping me updated on the thriller genre. I did like several of the stories and I think that I better understand the phenomenon and even something of the appeal.
    • 1/5
      Cliches and stereotypes and laughable plots. Worst readers and sound effects ever!
    • 1/5
      Not even to fall asleep on. Puffing for writers. I like Patterson but now I not so sure.
    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed most of these stories. They entertained me as I travelled back and forth to the hospital to visit my mother. They also served as bedtime stories when I had trouble falling asleep during that stressful time. I will definitely seek out more of these collections. Well done.
    • 3/5
      The short truth is that this book was an incredible disappointment, and I can only assume that the publisher relied on the names themselves to sell the book. And there's no denying that the big names--more generally accustomed to writing novels vs short stories--are part of the problem. Far too many of the stories make no attempt at all to offer real characterization, instead seeming to assume that readers will already be familiar with the characters from the authors' larger collection of work. This is made clear in story introduction after story introduction, and I have to say that the editor and publisher would likely have ended up with a far stronger collection if they'd asked authors to come up with stand-alone stories that didn't rely on already known characters for effect and character depth. I have to assume that the reliance was a too-easy crutch, but for readers like myself who were unfamiliar with most of the authors' work, it made for awfully flat reading. Additionally, the editing was incredibly lacking, as if not much more than a proofread was offered. Perhaps the authors were missing the hands of their normal editors, but either way, the stories were rife with cliched phrasings, comma errors, and over-writing; from being familiar with some of the authors' work, I can honestly say from those few stories that the quality of the writing itself in their stories wasn't up to the standard set by their novels.All told, I found the stories fairly flat, predictable, and lacking when it came to depth of either character or story; in the cases where there was depth, the stories tended to be so cluttered with extra detail--going overboard in showing the authors had done their homework on terrorism, geography, or police procedures, often enough--that the story and character ended up getting lost. I can't really find anything to recommend this collection, in all truth, and although I enjoyed a few of the stories, those were a rare few. I won't pick up another collection edited by Patterson, no doubt, and I'll leave this one with a bad taste in my mouth.
    • 2/5
      Thriller Anthology 🍒🍒
      Edited by James Patterson

      This anthology was given to me by a neighbor when I lived in Cathedral City. She said it wasn't her thing, and hopefully, although this volume has many of the best selling thriller authors, it does not typify a thriller novel in many of the stories.
      Most of the stories were suspenseful and had elements of mystery and intrigue, only a few really captured me. But I guess it depends on how you define the word "thriller".
      The stories I enjoyed most were:
      Epitaph by J.A. Konrath
      James Penney ' s New Identity by Lee Child
      The Portal by John Lescroart and M.J. Rose
      Man Catch by Christopher Rice
      Interlude At Duane's by F. Paul Wilson

      I would probably not recommend this because it had so few stories I really enjoyed. Edited by James Patterson, this just falls flat.
    • 5/5
      This collection, featuring thirty-two well-known, award-winning authors, offers readers a wonderfully diverse collection of thriller tales. Highlights in the impossible-to-set-aside volume include Lee Child’s Jack Reacher tale, James Grippando’s Jack Swyteck story, and Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone narrative. Lieutenant Vincent D’Acosta, the creation of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, makes an appearance and Brad Thor heads to Greece for a thriller about the 17 November terrorist organization. Aficionados of the thriller tale will find much to enjoy in this eclectic collection of stories from some of the most notable authors in the genre. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Most of the stories were okay. Some were very good, others I didn't like. I did like being able to try out new authors to get a feel for their writing style. Several have been added to my "To-Read" list, which seems to grow much faster than my "Read" list!
    • 4/5
      “ Thriller “ edited by James Patterson was a whole new look on short stories and the thrillers were amazingly written with such detail, but also with great depth they captivated you and brought you to a whole new world. When you read these short thrillers they don’t feel short in the sense that you truly get a story out of these; however, the characters are beautifully formed with exquisite writing and descriptive words the stories flow and by the end of each you feel emotionally attached and wishing there was more. Unlike most short stories that vary from one to another they all a have a purpose and whether it be the order or the elegance of the writing they flow like bird floating on a sweet fall gust of wind.This book is essentially many mini books, I say this because A good book introduces the characters, gets you i the moment and by the end not wanting it to end or feeling like they are real people. Now in a short story you must accomplish this in a few measly pages which is no easy task, especially when you take into account the description, introducing characters and the having a climax, and a wind down and a good satisfying ending. Now I was impressed a great deal in how the use of words was few and far, yet descriptive as well as intriguing and bringing you in, the author however does not use an abundance of words.Another exceptional piece I found amazingly well down was the flow, the flow of a book must be that wind that cools you off, but doesn’t rustle a leaf, a book must have a rhythm to it that yes, can be easily broken, yet is not. Many books have a style of writing then the author not descriptive goes into a wildly descriptive paragraph on a banana that has nothing to do with the story or the plot and this is what makes many books with great potential go plummeting to the ground and has no chance of coming back from this because the essential flow was broken. I found that all the short stories a wondrous flow that was tremendously well, followed by the terrific plot lies for each story, an amazing flow throughout the whole book; however, each individual piece was elegant and told a breathtaking story. I found that car chases, murders, and other acts in this book were so invigorating, not in the sense that you wanted to do i, but to get a rush from a book tells you something about that style of writing, that it somehow connects to you and I feel that all these stories some way, in some manner make a connection that brings you in, maybe the detail or the pictures it cultivates in your mind somehow thriller the book gave me a thrill. The author makes a whole new thought on the genre of thrillers and horrors. Not just some bloody, gorey, inappropriate book that was written to gross you out, but a book with messages, a book with purpose. To whomever wrote this I give a congratulations to because this book was truly exquisite, as well as thoughtful, detailed, descriptive and so much more, I truly encourage everyone and anyone to read the book thriller.
    • 4/5
       Thriller by James Patterson is a great book filled with fast paced captivating stories that grab your attention and don’t let go. The stories in this book were from many different authors and had many different kinds of stories in it from jungle adventures to street violence. While some people would enjoy this aspect of the book I found it confusing and it also made it hard to keep up with some things in class. Every story in this book was very different from the last. If you were to read two stories in a row it would be hard mentally to transition from the story before it. This diversity made it hard to write about this book. The short length of the stories made it hard to get to know the character and made some things confusing like motives and what the person really stands for. Overall I would rate this book 3.5 stars because of the confusion it gave me but I would recommend it to any short story lover.
    • 4/5
      Created back in 2001, the International Thriller Writers (?) put out a call for short storeis that hadnt been published by some of the worlds best authors of Thrillers. Be it sci-fi, mystery, murder, or horror, the best all come together in this very well edited collection. I love collections like this - it provides a gret way to get a feel for authors that you haven't read before, or sometimes heard of. Thanks to this book, and the great author bios (presumably done by Patterson) I now have several new authors to look forward to reading more of.
    • 2/5
      I listened to this rather than read it. Consequently some of my comments may relate to the readers rather than just the stories. There are multiple readers in the Brilliance production and inevitably you are just going to like some voices and dislike others. That said, all the readers do a professional job and the production values are superb - right down to making conversations that happen on the telephone or on TV sound distorted in a realistic way.I would have said I love reading thrillers before I came to this collection of stories but now I'm not so sure. All anthologies are going to have less well written material or just authors that you plain don't get on with but this seems to have some really terrible ones. I particularly hated stories by Ted Bell, Katherine Neville, James Rollins and David Liss. Three of these four have in common the fact that they are historical thrillers (or should that be hysterical?) Maybe it's me but I don't think so. One in particular (Neville's) was so bad it became quite funny as you wait for the next "wryly", "ironically" or comic French interjection.On the other hand there are some fantastic stories here and introduced me to authors new to me who I shall certainly follow up. I'd give special mention to James Siegal, Lee Child and F Paul Wilson. But then these are all squarely in the hard bolied tradition of thriller writing and that's what appeals to me.At least I've learned I hate historical thrillers now and I can look forward to reading more by the authors I enjoyed. Although I've rated this book 2 stars out of 5, my real evaluation is that there are few 5 star stories here, a few 0 star stories and some mediocre ones in between.
    • 5/5
      An excellent compilation of thriller writers. One reason I rated it so highly is that at least two of the short stories turned me onto new thriller writers that I'd never heard of (Christopher Reich & Brad Thor) - And now I've gone on and bought multiple books of each author and am a big fan. I have no doubt that more will come as I finish all of the stories contained within. There are few duds here and there, but considering how hard it is to build up a "thriller" storyline in just 20-30 pages, the amount of excellent material is impressive. For the most part, authors seem to take a main character(or in some cases a secondary) from their novels and put them thru a new adventure. It's a full range of story lines thrillers as well - just about every type you could imagine (and some I had never contemplated. Overall I found it to be impressive source for new authors - and you can't go wrong getting turned on to new authors, characters.